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Black-tailed prairie dogs were once abundant across the Great Plains, from Canada to Mexico. But after decades of habitat loss, poisonings and disease, these furry creatures have declined more than 95% in the last 150 years -- and are gone completely in large parts of their range.

Now, federal officials are considering protection for the black-tailed prairie dog under the Endangered Species Act as a terrible plague continues to wipe out vast numbers of the remaining prairie dog colonies, and as federal agencies continue to poison prairie dog colonies on our public lands..

Urge federal officials to protect black-tailed prairie dogs -- and the health of the Great Plains. Hurry -- the deadline for comments is Tuesday, February 2nd.

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Michael Isikoff, Newsweek: "Just four days before he left office, President Bush instructed former White House aide Karl Rove to refuse to cooperate with future congressional inquiries into alleged misconduct during his administration.... The letter told Rove that President Bush was continuing to assert executive privilege over any testimony by Rove - even after he leaves office."

http://www.truthout.org/013009E



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Chris Isidore, CNNMoney.com: "The US economy suffered its biggest slowdown in 26 years in the last three months of 2008, according to the government's first reading about the fourth quarter released Friday. Gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation's economic activity, fell at an annual rate of 3.8 percent in the fourth quarter, adjusted for inflation."

http://www.truthout.org/013009C

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Economy Goes From Bad to Worse

latimes.com — The bad economic news keeps piling up. Three milestones showing the depths of the downturn were reached: The number of workers filing unemployment claims hit an all-time high, sales of new homes fell to an all-time low, and production of durable goods dropped for the fifth straight month, boosting inventories to their highest level since at least 1992. And it's not over yet. The Commerce Department is scheduled to release its initial estimate of the U.S. gross domestic product — the value of all goods and services produced by the economy — for the fourth quarter of 2008. The report will essentially wrap into one sobering number all the grim developments that have been accumulating for weeks and months.

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Derwesten.de - West Germany, Germany

RFID-Ausweise mit Speicherchip sind aber bestellt. Der Bielefelder Datenschutzverein FoeBuD macht mit seiner Kampagne "Stop RFID" auf die Gefahren des ...

http://www.derwesten.de/nachrichten/staedte/luenen/2009/1/30/news-108898814/detail.html



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Der Präsident des Bundesgerichtshofs (BGH), Klaus Tolksdorf, hat die weit verbreitete Praxis des sogenannten Deals in Strafprozessen scharf kritisiert. Solche Absprachen zwischen Verteidigung, Staatsanwaltschaft und Gericht über das zu erwartende Urteil wirkten "insgesamt verheerend", weil sie die gesamte Justiz in Misskredit bringen könnten, sagte Tolksdorf am Donnerstagabend (29. Januar) vor der Justizpressekonferenz (JPK) in Karlsruhe.

http://www.ngo-online.de/ganze_nachricht.php?H=N&Nr=19225

By Roisin McGroarty

THE green-light has been given for a phone mast to be installed in Holmston despite locals warning that it’s a “health hazard.”

Councillors have decided on placing the 12 metre pole next to homes and Kyle Academy at the north side of Holmston Road with promises that will boost the area’s broadband and mobile phone signals.

Several residents had objected about the visual aspects and safety implications of Vodafone’s mast on council grounds with several attending last Thursday’s regulatory panel in protest.

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Dawn Kopecki and Julianna Goldman, Bloomberg: "President Barack Obama fed a swelling populist revolt against Wall Street bonuses, calling it 'shameful' that banks doled out $18.4 billion as taxpayers bail out companies and the U.S. remains mired in a recession. The bonuses are 'the height of irresponsibility,' Obama said today before meeting Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Vice President Joe Biden at the White House. Firms need to 'show some restraint and show some discipline,' Obama said."

http://www.truthout.org/013009N



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In der Europäischen Union arbeiten Politiker wie Bundesinnenminister Wolfgang Schäuble stark daran, die gemeinsame Pläne zur inneren Sicherheit auszubauen - nicht unbedingt zum Vorteil der Bürgerrechte. Ein Überblick von Von Michael Hörz anlässlich des Europäischen Datenschutztages im Tagesspiegel vom 28.01.2009 http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/international/Europa-Datenschutz;art123,2717009


Aus: LabourNet, 30. Januar 2009



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Altersarmut ist eine Folge politischer Fehlentscheidungen - DGB startet Kampagne "Rente muss zum Leben reichen"

Unter dem Motto „Rente muss zum Leben reichen“ hat der DGB am Mittwoch in Berlin seine Kampagne zur Stärkung der solidarischen Alterssicherung in Deutschland gestartet. Ziel ist es, die Ursachen der drohenden Altersarmut deutlich zu machen und die Politik dazu zu bewegen, die notwendigen Reformen rasch auf den Weg zu bringen. Siehe dazu die Pressemitteilung vom DGB vom 28.01.2009 http://www.dgb.de/presse/pressemeldungen/pmdb/pressemeldung_single?pmid=3363

»Rente muss zum Leben reichen«
Die Kampagnenseite des DGB http://www.ichwillrente.net/


Materialzusammenstellung

Eine Materialzusammenstellung zur Kampagne von Reinhold Schramm vom 28.01.2009 (pdf) http://www.labournet.de/diskussion/wipo/rente/dgbrente_rws


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AntiWar.Com
by Justin Raimondo

01/30/09

Putting aside Bizarro economics, for now, and my wholesale rejection of same, there is one way we can stimulate the economy with a mighty injection of cash into the hands of one and all. No, not another government subsidy, but the cutting of the single largest federal expenditure down to a manageable size: the U.S. military budget. Larger than all the other ‘defense’ budgets in the world combined, this unimaginable sum is not even known, for sure, but of one thing we can be certain: the hidden costs are much more than anyone suspects...

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=14163



$646,214 per government job

Cato Institute
by Alan Reynolds

01/29/09

House Democrats propose to spend $550 billion of their two-year, $825 billion ’stimulus bill’ (the rest of it being tax cuts). Most of the spending is unlikely to be timely or temporary. Strangely, most of it is targeted toward sectors of the economy where unemployment is the lowest. The December unemployment rate was only 2.3% for government workers and 3.8% in education and health. Unemployment rates in manufacturing and construction, by contrast, were 8.3% and 15.2% respectively. Yet 39% of the $550 billion in the bill would go to state and local governments. Another 17.3% would go to health and education — sectors where relatively secure government jobs are also prevalent. If the intent of the plan is to alleviate unemployment, why spend over half of the money on sectors where unemployment is lowest?

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9913


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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MSNBC

01/29/09

Families of two Saudi detainees who committed suicide in June 2006 while being held at Guantanamo Bay have sued the Pentagon, alleging Thursday that torture and brutal conditions at the offshore prison led the men to their deaths. The New-York based Center for Constitutional Rights said the parents of Yassar Talal al-Zahrani and Salah Ali Abdullah Ahmed al-Salami are seeking unspecified damages for the ‘illegal detention, torture, inhumane conditions, and ultimate deaths’ of their sons...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28919377/



Judge” refuses to delay Gitmo detainee’s “trial”

MSNBC

01/29/09

A military judge at Guantanamo on Thursday rejected a White House request to suspend a hearing for a USS Cole bombing suspect, creating an unexpected challenge for the Obama administration as it reviews the U.S. war-crimes trials process. The judge, Army Col. James Pohl, said his decision was difficult but necessary to protect ‘the public interest in a speedy trial.’ The ruling came in the case against Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, the alleged mastermind of the 2000 Navy destroyer bombing that killed 17 U.S. sailors in Yemen.” [editor’s note: “Speedy trial” my a... . He’s been in US custody for more than six years - TLK]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28914869/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Media Matters
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/01/29-10

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-EHS European pilot White Zone Health Zone eco-village:
- Descriptive and panoramic photos of the surroundings and the rental chalets .
(Access to full details is reserved for EHS house owners.)

http://www.zoneblanche.fr/index-eng.html

Bill Moyers Journal: "On the heels of the American drone attacks on suspected terrorist compounds in Pakistan, Bill Moyers Journal takes a closer look at America's history of, and current policy on, bombing; explores the ethics behind these assaults when civilians become the victims, and asks: Does bombing work? Bill Moyers sits down with historian Marilyn Young, author of the forthcoming 'Bombing Civilians: A Twentieth Century History' and former Pentagon official Pierre Sprey, who developed military planes and helped found the military reform movement."

http://www.truthout.org/012909U



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Ernesto Londono and Qais Mizher, The Washington Post: "The Iraqi government has informed the US Embassy in Baghdad that it will not issue a new operating license to Blackwater Worldwide, the embassy's primary security company, which has come under scrutiny for allegedly using excessive force while protecting American diplomats, Iraqi and US officials said Wednesday."

http://www.truthout.org/012909S

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Blackwater Mercs Likely to Stay in Iraq, Despite Gov't Ban

Iraq's government says it won't give Blackwater a license to operate in the country. So does that mean the firm's cadre ... will be gone from Iraq, forever? Not exactly.

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2009/01/blackwater-bann.html


From Information Clearing House



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by Patrick Wood

In short, Obama is merely the continuation of disastrous, non-American policies that have brought economic ruin upon us and the rest of the world. The Obama experience rivals that of Jimmy Carter, whose campaign slogan was "I will never lie to you." When the Democrat base finally realizes that it has been conned again, perhaps it will unleash a real political revolution that will oust Trilateral politicians, operatives and policies from the shores of our country.......

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Der Bundesbeauftragte für Datenschutz, Peter Schaar, befürchtet, dass die erfassten Daten bei der geplanten Streckenkontrolle im Straßenverkehr auch für andere Zwecke missbraucht werden könnten. "Das Verkehrsverhalten, aber auch die Frage, welcher Fahrer sich wann wo aufhält, wird durch solche Methoden immer umfassender registriert", sagte Schaar der "Frankfurter Rundschau".

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- CRIIREM Synthèse Résultats Enquête Riverains: "Vivre avec une ligne THT"
- Communiqué de Presse Enquête Riverains THT.
- Position Politique de la Coordination.

http://www.next-up.org/France/THT.php#1

Jane Mayer, The New Yorker: "On Thursday, President Barack Obama consigned to history the worst excesses of the Bush Administration's 'war on terror.' One of the four executive orders that Obama signed effectively cancelled seven years of controversial Justice Department legal opinions authorizing methods of treating terror suspects so brutal that even a top Bush administration official overseeing prosecutions at Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, recently admitted that they amounted to torture. According to some of those opinions, many of which remain classified, President Bush could authorize US officials to capture, interrogate, and indefinitely imprison terror suspects all around the globe, outside of any legal process."

http://www.truthout.org/012909L



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Maya Schenwar, Truthout: "Amid talk of a drawdown of troops in Iraq, new statistics from the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans' Affairs (VA) show that US casualties are still climbing quickly. Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield injuries and deaths number 81,361, up from 72,043 last January, according to data obtained through a Freedom of Information Act request by Veterans for Common Sense (VCS). Veteran patients - including those who didn't seek care until their return home - shot up to 400,304 (from 263,909 in December 2007). For the thousands of soldiers flooding the VA, mental illness tops the list of ailments.... However, many barriers to adequate care and compensation remain, particularly for veterans filing for disability benefits."

http://www.truthout.org/012909J



Purple Hearts: A Cold-Blooded Decision

Conn Hallinan, Foreign Policy in Focus: "Behind the recent Pentagon decision to deny Purple Heart medals to soldiers suffering from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a cold-blooded calculation: It saves money. The official rationale for refusing to honor what is widely considered the 'signature wound' of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is that PTSD, according to Pentagon spokeswoman Eileen Lainez, is 'an anxiety disorder caused by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event,' not 'a wound intentionally caused by the enemy.'"

http://www.truthout.org/012909N



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tomdispatch.com — For months on end, marked by bankruptcies, foreclosures, evictions, and layoffs, the economic meltdown has taken a heavy toll on Americans. In response, a range of extreme acts including suicide, self-inflicted injury, murder, and arson have hit the local news.

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Citizens, Not Subjects

On Thomas Paine's birthday, it's worth reflecting on the significance of an America in which the people themselves are the rulers.

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Heartland Institute
by Steve Stanek

01/28/09

Garret blames the financial crisis largely on excessive spending and borrowing by government, financial institutions, and individuals. Because businesses, individuals, states, and local governments cannot legally print money, says Garret, ‘they’re stuck, and we’re bailing them out. This means our federal government is going to print money for those liabilities, and that will mean inflation in another year or two at levels we haven’t seen in a long, long time. Also, when government distributes money quickly, there’s usually a lot of money going to where it wasn’t intended. This wastes resources’...

http://www.heartland.org/full.html?articleid=24622



Kitchen sinks? You betcha

FreedomWorks
by NSwift

01/28/09

Legislators have included everything they can think of that could require money in the ‘Stimulus’ plan. Maybe no specific kitchen sinks, but there are definitely kitchen appliances. The Wall Street Journal takes a good look at all the government growing, unnecessary, super-expensive, and non-productive waste in this bill. And, like Sowell yesterday, illustrates how the Left is taking advantage of this ‘crisis’ (market correction) to ram all their favorite projects down the throats of American taxpayers - and all, for nothing...

http://tinyurl.com/awodd8


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Freedom's Phoenix
by Vin Suprynowicz

01/28/09

To be of any use, Libertarian political activity has to confront people with truths, and for the most part (in the immortal words of Jack Nicholson, ‘A Few Good Men,’ 1982) they ‘can’t handle the truth.’ We have no choice but to tell them compulsion-based tax-funded schooling does more harm than good. … We have no choice but to tell them drug prohibition is an unenforceable moral evil, giving birth to the complete police state. … But these positions do not ’sell,’ politically. So anyone trying to win public office — or even raise funds to run for public office — soon learns to pussy-foot around such issues, using euphemisms that allow the listener to avoid confronting these unpalatable truths...

http://www.freedomsphoenix.com/Feature-Article.htm?InfoNo=044713


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Liberty For All
by US Rep. Ron Paul (R-TX)

01/28/09

Billions of dollars were recently lost in the collapse of Bernie Madoff’s self-described Ponzi scheme, in which too-good-to-be-true returns on investments were not really returns at all, but the funds of defrauded new investors. The pyramid scheme collapsed dramatically when too many clients called in their accounts, and not enough new victims could be found to support these withdrawals. Bernie Madoff was running a blatant fraud operation...

http://www.libertyforall.net/?p=1971



A country of Madoffs

The Daily Reckoning
by Bill Bonner

01/28/09

Like Bernie Madoff, the CEOs put it over on everyone — the capitalists as well as the proles. The poor working stiffs had foreign labor breathing down their necks. If they got out of line, their employers would export their jobs to China. The patsy stockholders had no chance either. They knew perfectly well that the schmuck running the business wasn’t worth what he was being paid, but who could argue with ‘performance?’ Besides they had ‘compensation committees’ and consultants to tell them is [sic] was ‘reasonable’ or competitive. Retired CEO of DuPont, Edgar S. Woolard, Jr., did. In 2005, he was chairman of the NYSE’s executive compensation committee. As to the need to pay such high compensation in order to get good talent, he replied with a single word: ‘bull.’ But did not the super-paid super-CEOs create super wealth? It was a ‘joke,’ said he. He blew the whistle. But no one came a running...

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/a-country-of-madoffs/


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Cato Institute
by William D. Hartung and Christopher Preble

01/28/09

As the Obama administration and Congress move forward with a multifaceted economic-stimulus package with a price tag of hundreds of billions of dollars, yet another interest group has staked its claim to a share of those funds — the nation’s defense contractors. The arms lobby and its supporters in the think-tank world have made their case in a series of ads, articles and talking points. Martin Feldstein of the American Enterprise Institute describes defense spending as a ‘great stimulus.’ Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol agrees. Noting that the military was ’spending all kinds of money already,’ Mr. Kristol wondered aloud, ‘If you’re buying 2,000 Humvees a month, why not buy 3,000? If you’re refurbishing two military bases, why not refurbish five?’ Such comments ignore that military spending is supposed to serve one central purpose: advancing U.S. security. The defense budget is not a jobs program, nor should it be...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=9914


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Guardian [UK]
by Richard Seymour

01/27/09

The first Democratic president in the modern era to be elected on an anti-war ticket is also, to the relief of neocons and the liberal belligerati, a hawk. Committed to escalation in Afghanistan, his foreign policy selections also indicate bellicosity towards Sudan and Iran. During his first week in office he sanctioned two missile attacks in Pakistan, killing 22 people, including women and children. … It is tempting to dismiss the ‘pro-war left’ as a congeries of discredited left-wing apostates and Nato liberals. Their artless euphemisms for bloody conquest seem especially redundant in light of over a million Iraqi deaths. Yet their arguments, ranging from a paternalistic defence of ‘humanitarian intervention’ to the championing of ‘western values,’ have their origins in a tradition of liberal imperialism whose durability advises against hasty dismissal. In every country whose rulers have opted for empire, there has developed among the intellectual classes a powerful pro-imperial consensus, with liberals and leftwingers its most vociferous defenders...

http://tinyurl.com/byoeqc


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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Raw Story

01/27/09

The super-secretive National Security Agency has been quietly monitoring, decrypting, and interpreting foreign communications for decades, starting long before it came under criticism as a result of recent revelations about the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. Now a forthcoming PBS documentary asks whether the NSA could have prevented 9/11 if it had been more willing to share its data with other agencies...

http://tinyurl.com/bz7kyv


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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CNN

01/28/09

The U.S. Army will report Thursday the highest level of suicides among its soldiers since it began tracking the rate 28 years ago, CNN has learned. Statistics obtained by CNN show the Army will report 128 confirmed suicides last year and another 15 suspected suicides in cases under investigation among active-duty soldiers and activated National Guard and reserves...

http://tinyurl.com/cdywes


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Army Reports Alarming Spike in Suicides Last Month

Pauline Jelinek, The Associated Press: "The Army is investigating an unexplained and stunning spike in suicides in January. The count is likely to surpass the number of combat deaths reported last month by all branches of the armed forces in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere in the fight against terrorism. 'In January, we lost more soldiers to suicide than to al-Qaida,' said Paul Rieckhoff, director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. He urged 'bold and immediate action' by the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs."

http://www.truthout.org/020609L



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http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2009/01/28-8

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The Nuclear Industry's Latest Money Grab

By HARVEY WASSERMAN

The desperate, dangerous nuclear power industry has dropped a $50 billion stealth bomb meant to irradiate the Obama Stimulus Package.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21892.htm



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/28-11

Obama Lets CIA Keep Controversial Renditions Tool
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/31-3



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2009/01/28-6



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NOW: "The economic crisis is affecting people in all income and social brackets, but America's baby boomers and seniors don't have the option to wait it out. The housing meltdown, market crash and rising costs of everything from food to medicine have taken the luster out of seniors' "golden years," or worse, put them into deep debt. "

http://www.truthout.org/012809U



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Josh Gerstein, The Politico: "In Democratic legal circles, no attorney has been more pilloried than former Bush Justice Department official John Yoo, chief author of the so-called torture memos that Barack Obama last week sought to nullify. But now President Obama's incoming crew of lawyers has a new and somewhat awkward job: defending Yoo in federal court."

http://www.truthout.org/012809S



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The economic downturn could result in the loss of up to 51 million jobs worldwide by the end of this year, a UN agency has predicted.

http://www.presstv.com/detail.aspx?id=83958&sectionid=3510213



Financial crisis hangs over Davos

The World Economic Forum has got under way in Davos, Switzerland, as the international monetary fund slashed its economic growth forecasts, predicting the severe financial crisis would brake global growth to the slowest pace in six decades.

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/europe/2009/01/20091289810432575.html



Rioting Greeks, angry Germans and why the euro may well collapse

The Brussels elite are pretending the question does not arise, but the financial world knows the question is there, hanging over the entire European Union economy: is the single European currency going to break apart?

http://tinyurl.com/d6mqmb



Europe's winter of discontent

Thursday's French national strike reflects growing despair on the Continent with the way governments are handling the recession, says Adrian Michaels.

http://tinyurl.com/bf47yu



Boeing to cut 10,000 jobs

Plane maker announces an additional 5,500 job cuts as demand for new aircraft is expected to remain weak.

http://money.cnn.com/2009/01/28/news/economy/Boeing_job_cuts/



How top financiers paid themselves £1bn before the wheels fell off

A dozen senior bankers whose influence has shaped the financial world gave themselves pay awards valued at more than £1bn before the credit crunch spectacularly exposed the fragility of the profits they appeared to have secured for shareholders.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/jan/28/executive-salaries-banking1


From Information Clearing House



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By Terry Jones

I've decided to start manufacturing weapons. Nothing too ambitious, just some small arms, a few automatic weapons, and maybe a couple of bombs. You know the sort of thing. It's not that I'm keen on killing people. I haven't actually killed anyone myself yet. It's all to do with economics.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21864.htm



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By ZP Heller

Why is our government sending an additional 30,000 US soldiers to Afghanistan? So far, not even members of the Obama administration seem able to answer this question.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21863.htm



Astonishing Incongruities

Is It Time to Bail Out of the US?

By Paul Craig Roberts

How can President Obama even think about fighting wars half way around the world while California cannot pay its bills, while Americans are being turned out of their homes, while, as Business Week reports, retirees will work throughout their retirement (which assumes that there will be jobs), while careers are being destroyed and stores and factories shuttered.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21867.htm



The Obama Spectacle

History, Hypocrisy, and Empire

By Larry Pinkney

Let us commit and re-commit ourselves to the struggle for systemic change in this nation, and not be duped by this latest dose of U.S. hypocrisy in the person of Barack Obama.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21862.htm



The United Haters of America

By Guy Reel

Somewhere deep inside the authoritarian minds of the ultra right-wingers, the fear, helplessness and paranoia that have always been so evident have reached the boiling point. For them, Obama's election and, perhaps even more so, the sight of him standing on the Capitol steps and taking the oath of office, have brought home a grim truth.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21865.htm



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Brasilianisches Ethanol aus Zuckerrohr spielt für die Energie- und Klimapolitik der Bundesregierung eine zentrale Rolle. Es ist billig und wird in immer grösseren Mengen produziert. Der Amazonasregenwald wird dazu gerodet und die Arbeiter von der Ethanolindustrie auf unmenschliche Weise geknechtet. Pater Tiago und die Landpastorale CPT aus Brasilien klagen die dramatischen Missstände an.

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=352



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Deutschland präsentiert sich gerne als Vorreiter beim Klima- und Umweltschutz. Die Bundesregierung unterstützt weltweit Projekte zum Schutz der Wälder. Doch im eigenen Land herrscht die Axt im Walde. Zum Bau einer vierten Landebahn auf dem Frankfurter Flughafen sollen 300 Hektar Wald vernichtet werden. Dabei ist das Flugzeug das Verkehrsmittel mit dem höchsten Energieverbrauch und der grössten Klimabelastung.

http://www.regenwald.org/protestaktion.php?id=353

http://www.lewrockwell.com/bovard/bovard61.html

Usurpation Blather
http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig9/fein-b2.html

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Too Big to Fail, Too Big to Jail

By Amy Goodman

Without thorough, aggressive, public investigations of the full spectrum of crimes alleged of the Bush administration, there will be no accountability, and the complete record of this chapter of U.S. history will never be written.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article21866.htm



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Where Are U.S. Consumer Goods Prices Headed?
http://www.lewrockwell.com/rozeff/rozeff264.html



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